Hendrick Cardiovascular Care

For more than 60 years, Hendrick Cardiovascular Care has delivered exceptional care to heart patients in Abilene and the surrounding area. At Hendrick, we combine high level physician expertise, years of medical experience and today’s most advanced technology treatments to provide a full range of services for patients, all in one location.

Our multidisciplinary team includes cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons and specially trained nurses, technicians and therapists, all working together to provide patients access to cardiac care 24 hours a day. In addition, holter monitor application and removal service is provided remotely at Stephens Memorial Hospital, Haskell County Hospital and Stamford Memorial Hospital.

Awards and Recognition

The Joint Commission recently recognized Hendrick Medical Center with certification for our Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Program. The program focuses on the adult population of patients diagnosed with a heart attack. Achievement of this certification signifies the organization’s dedication to providing quality care to our patients. Hendrick Medical Center serves patients from the surrounding 19 counties. The program recently underwent a rigorous on-site review on May 2, 2017. A Joint Commission expert reviewed our compliance with the requirements for the Joint Commission’s Disease-Specific Care Certification programs. Hendrick received its initial Chest Pain Center with PCI Accreditation in 2011.

Our AMI program combines the efforts of the Hendrick Emergency Department with the Abilene Fire Department, as well as facilities and emergency services from the surrounding area. The program's processes begin before the patient arrives at Hendrick and continues throughout the patient's stay, including the patient's transition home.

The program focus is to promote health by following guideline-directed medical therapy, encouraging timely follow-up after hospitalization, adherence to prescribed medication therapy and participating in Cardiac Rehab after discharge. Our multidisciplinary team is committed to providing quality care to our patients.

Hendrick Medical Center’s Heart Failure Program began in 2014 and recently underwent a rigorous on-site review on May 1, 2017. A Joint Commission expert reviewed Hendrick’s compliance with the requirements for the Joint Commission’s Disease-Specific Care Certification programs. Our multidisciplinary team is committed to providing quality care.

Our Heart Failure Program combines the efforts of the Hendrick Emergency Department with the Abilene Fire Department, as well as facilities and emergency services from the surrounding area. The program's processes begin before the patient arrives at Hendrick and continues throughout the patient's stay, including the patient's transition home.

Our program focus is to promote health by following guideline-directed medical therapy, encouraging timely follow-up after hospitalization, adherence to prescribed medication therapy and using the Heart Failure Clinic to supplement care provided by primary care physicians.

ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award

Hendrick Medical Center (Hendrick) has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2017. Hendrick has received this honor each year since 2014.

The award recognizes Hendrick’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that Hendrick has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award, Hendrick Medical Center consistently followed the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry–GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.

ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. ACTION Registry-GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.

The Beverly Spraggins Award of Excellence

Hendrick Cardiac Rehabilitation recently earned The Beverly Spraggins Award of Excellence from the Texas Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The award is given in “recognition of outstanding contribution in the field of cardiac rehabilitation.”

The mission of Texas Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation is to reduce morbidity, mortality and disability from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases through prevention, education, rehabilitation and aggressive disease management. Central to this mission is the improvement of quality of life for patients and their families.